The video recording Octavio Paz includes Paz reading from his work, as well as interview material. It was produced and directed by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr in 1989.

"My Life with the Wave" was translated and adapted as a children's story by Catherine Cowan in a 1997 book of the same name, illustrated by Mark Buehner. This adaptation was recorded on audiocassette by Recorded Books in 1998, narrated by Johnny Heller.